On Tuesday, July 24, the ghosts of the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Bronx Bombers were summoned to DiMattina Ballfield in Carroll Gardens as Marty Markowitz and Adolfo Carrion, Jr.’s offices time-traveled to the bygone era of inter-borough baseball battles that ignited a city and enthralled a generation.

The match-up, which was part of this year’s Borough Cup softball competition pitting all five of the borough president’s offices against each other, proved to be a small measure of revenge for the borough of Brooklyn, whose eternally hapless Dodgers were so often on the wrong side of one of Major League Baseball’s fiercest rivalries. Between 1941 and 1956, the Dodgers and the Yankees met seven times in the World Series, with the Yankees winning all but one.

But the results were different in Carroll Gardens yesterday—this time it’s the Bronx that will have to “wait ‘til next year.” Spurred by the power hitting of Chief of Staff Greg Atkins, the slick, Pee Wee Reese-esque infield play of Production Specialist Joe Frizzell, and the speedy base running of diminutive Policy Analyst Jessica Blum, Marty Markowitz’s office took a 4-1 in the fourth inning and never looked back. The 9-4 final could be read, not only as an indication of the superior athletic abilities of the Brooklyn Borough President’s Office, but also as potentially important shift in the balance of power between these two outer-borough rivals.